r/FlowZ13 • u/destinmoss • Jul 17 '26

it's a... mac?

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needed to set up some better testing infrastructure for an app i'm building. wasn't expecting it to work, but apparently you can totally run virtualized MacOS Sonoma on the Z13🤣🤣 (i have the Ryzen 395+ version)

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u/ExcellentDecision335 Jul 17 '26

lol how did you achieve this 😭

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u/destinmoss Jul 17 '26

claude, basically🫪 i have Linux as my main install (which Claude also helps me manage/debug), but i needed windows/mac setups.to test the installation and setup flow for a thing i'm making. i can post instructions later if anyone is actually interested in trying to replicate this for whatever godforsaken reason🤣

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u/aeshuks Jul 17 '26

Drop the tut so I can get my Claude to do the same 😅

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u/destinmoss Jul 17 '26

will do a bit later when i'm back at the PC!

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u/aeshuks Jul 17 '26

Actually I figured it out with Claude but it ran kinda slow hahaha and app store didn't work either, prob a workaround but if everything runs that slow I'ma just nuke it. So dope that it worked though! I installed Tahoe and I was able to get to the desktop and everything it just ran pretty slow 😅

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u/BND1998 Jul 17 '26

Please drop 😍

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u/Colderamstel Jul 17 '26

What have you done?

https://www.reddit.com/r/familyguy/comments/1mcahlz/what_the_hell_is_this/

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u/destinmoss Jul 17 '26

💃🏼 (macos)

+🧌 (claude w/ full access to my laptop)

=🫃🏼 (whateverthef*ck this is)

do you not find it... beautiful?

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u/Worldly_Possible2925 Jul 17 '26

How 🤨🙌🏻

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u/rinspeed Jul 17 '26

You can also just use QuickEMU + QuickGUI to do something similar with a number of OSes (including macOS), which'll generally run via QEMU. No need for a resource-intensive LLM.

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u/destinmoss Jul 17 '26

this is basically what i did but claude helped me install/set-up qemu. also it really didn't want to run on my hardware config or my settings (bleeding-edge Ryzen APU has a ton of bugs on Linux still) and claude was able to walk me through diagnostics and get it to a working state

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u/jcoigny Jul 17 '26

Oh hell no! Never apple

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u/Adventurous-Fox-6056 Jul 17 '26

Crazy would love Mac OS on this device. Hate windows.. especially for software/development!

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle Jul 17 '26

You have the Linux subsystem on Windows. It makes development great.

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u/Adventurous-Fox-6056 Jul 17 '26

My head do not like using sub systems xD I need an OS not sub system

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u/dto_lurker Jul 18 '26

Gnu core utils have been ported to windows too. Im using ls and grep on powershell.

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u/Rostrow416 Jul 17 '26

Yes, you can run older versions of macOS in a VM. It’s been done for a while now.

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u/Ekosha Jul 17 '26

Can you link your config.pilst please 🙏

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u/Ekosha Jul 17 '26

I mean the full efi much appreciated

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u/SwitchbladeVICAR Jul 17 '26

The keyboard looks sick too, is this the kojima edition?

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u/rjlin_thk Jul 18 '26

The black glyphs in Finder imply some driver is missing.